CogPrints
CogPrints is an electronic archive where authors can self-archive papers in various fields related to cognitive science. These fields include psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and areas of computer science such as artificial intelligence, robotics, vision, learning, speech, and artificial neural networks. The archive also includes works in philosophy (e.g., philosophy of mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behavior genetics, evolutionary theory), medicine (e.g., psychiatry, neurology, human genetics, imaging), and anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archaeology, paleontology). Additionally, CogPrints hosts research from other areas of the physical, social, and mathematical sciences that are relevant to the study of cognition.
The archive was launched in 1997 and is moderated by Stevan Harnad. As of 2025, it contains over 4,000 freely downloadable articles.
CogPrints has been referenced alongside the physics archive arXiv as an example of the author self-archiving model within open access publishing. Over time, under the influence of the Open Archives Initiative and its OAI-PMH, the focus of self-archiving has shifted from centralized repositories like CogPrints to distributed self-archiving in institutional repositories.
CogPrints was among the first repositories to adopt OAI compliance. Its software was later converted into EPrints at the University of Southampton by Rob Tansley, who later contributed to the development of DSpace. EPrints is currently maintained by Christopher Gutteridge at Southampton.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Borgman, Christine L (2007) Scholarship in the digital age: information, infrastructure, and the Internet. MIT Press
- Butler, Declan (2000) Souped up search engines. Nature 405: 112–5
- Carr, L., Swan, A. and Harnad, S. (2011) Creating and Curating the Cognitive Commons: Southampton’s Contribution. In: Curating the European University, pp. 193–199, Universitaire Pers Leuven
- Hall, Gary (2008) Digitize this book!: the politics of new media, or why we need open access now. Wilsted & Taylor
- Van de Sompel, Herbert, Thomas Krichel, Michael L. Nelson et al. (2000) The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives. D-Lib Magazine 6(2).
